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THE MAGIC ARROW

ONE winter’s day, a terrific storm was raging over
the islands of the Haidas. Quasset, town of many
totem poles, lay half concealed beneath deep drifts
of snow which the blizzard had whirled along the
beach and piled up against the ledges. From one end
of the street to the other, memorial and totem poles
and burial chests were grotesquely draped with ice
and snow. From the long beaks of eagle and raven
hung snow-encrusted icicles; the owl wore a strange
white hood; the head of the huge memorial pole bear
had been completely buried beneath a thick drift of

snow that had formed on its back; and the mouth of
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